Portable bath.



G. A. BENCH.

PORTABLE BATH.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1914.

1,1 04,314, Patented July 21, 1914.

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PORTABLE BATH.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1914.

Application filed May 27, 1914. Serial No. 841,186. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLEsA'. BENCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Baths, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relating to improvements in portable baths will be readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which V Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved bath in condition for use: Fig. 2 a rear elevation of the same: Fig. 3 a side elevation of the pail-supporting shelf and attached bag-supporting arms, the shelf appearing in transverse section in the plane of line a of Fig. 2: Fig. 4 a side elevation of the front end of one of the bag-supporting arms with a front side portion of the bag attached to it: and Fig. a 'side elevation of til the bag hooked up, for use, for the purpose of emptying the water from it. f

In the drawing-:-1, indicates a wall of a building; 2, a shelf projecting therefrom at a height greater than that of a person; 3, a pair of brackets attached to the wall and serving in securing the shelf thereto; 4, a pair of screw-eyes or staples projecting up from the rear portion of the top of the shelf, at a distance of about two or three feet from each other; 5, a pair of bag-supporting arms resting upon the shelf and projecting out forwardly therefrom, these arms projecting about 2 or 3 feet from the wall to which the shelf is attached; 6, a pin projecting rearwardly from the rear end of each of arms 5, these pinsproj ecting within the eyes or staples 4; 7, a dowel-pin projecting down from each of arms 5 and engaging a dowelhole near the front edge of the shelf; 8, a hook projecting outwardly from the outside of each of the arms, near their rear ends; 9, similar hooks projecting outwardly from the arms near their front ends; 10, hooks projecting out from the forward ends of the arms; 11, a hook projecting downward from the shelf at the center of its rear portion; 12, the floor of the apartment; 13, a pail, forming a typical reservoir adapted to hold water enough for the intended bathing purposes, this pail resting movably upon the shelf; 14:, a shower-pipe connected with the lower front portion of thepail and projecting forwardly to a poin't,say, about half way to the front ends of the bag-supporting arms 5; 15, acock in the shower-pipe; 16, a box-shaped bagformed of flexible watertight material and having a vertical depth adapted toextend fromthe bag-supporting arms to the floor, and having a width equal to about the distancefrom one of the bagsupporting-arms to the other, and having a fore and aft depth equal about to the'distance from the wall 2 of the forward ends of the bag-supporting arms, this bag being closed at its bottom and open at its top; 17, the front wall of the bag, the same being free from one of the side walls from a point at thetop of the bag to a point near its bottom; 18, gromets'or loops carried by the upper edges of the sidewalls of the bag and adapted to engage the hooks 8 and 9 on the bag-supporting arms; 19, a gromet or loop at the center of the upper margin of the back wall "of the bag adapted to engage the hook11; 20, gromets or loops carried by the upper corners of the front wall of the bag and adapted to engage the hooks 10 on the ends of the bag-supporting varms; 21, loops at the lower. corners of the front wall of the bag and adapted to engage the hooks 10; and 22, a stoppered opening in the-back wall of the bag at a distance upward from the floor of the bag equal to about half the fore and aft depth of the bag.

The parts being in the condition indicated in Fig. 1, and the pail being properly filled, the user steps into the bag through its open frontflap and closes the front flap and hooks it. The user takes the bath by manipulating the cock in the shower-pipe, the used water being caught in the'base of the bag. When the user has completed his bathing, he steps from the bag and, grasping loops 21. he lifts the front wall of the bag and hooks loops 21 upon. hooks 10. This shortens the bag vertically and brings the stoppered opening 22 to the base of the shortened bag, as illustrated in Fig. 5. A waste-water catching vessel is then placed under the bag and the stopper removed, whereupon the water contained in the bag goes to the vessel. which may be removed.

In some situations the bath may be left in immediately usable condition, but, if desired, the bag may be removed from the hooks and the bag-supporting arms may be disengaged from the shelf, and the bag and bagsupporting arms may be packed in the pail, which may be left on the shelf or stored away as desired.

It is to be understood that my invention is particularly pointed out in the claims hereto annexed and that the particular con struction set forth is merely a single exemplification of the invention. It has been my desire to explain the principle of my invention and to set forth the best form in which I at present contemplate embodying the invention.

1. A portable bath comprising, a shelf adapted to support a pail provided with a shower-pipe, a boX-shaped bag adapted to be supported from the shelf and to have its base rest upon a floor below the shelf and having its front Wall openable at one of the front corners, a stoppered discharge opening in the back wall of the bag near its base, and loops upon the lower front corners of the bag adapted to engage supporting devices at the front of the top of the bag when the base of the front of the bag is ele vated, combined substantially as set forth.

2. A portable bath comprising, a shelf adapted to support a pail provided with a shower-pipe, a box-shaped bag adapted to be supported fromthe shelf and to have its base rest upon a floor below the shelf and having its front wall openable at one of the front corners, a stoppered discharge open ing in the back wall of the bag near its base, loops upon the lower front corners of the bag adapted to engage supporting devices at the front of the top of the bag when the base of the front of the bag is elevated, and hooks supported by the shelf and adapted to be engaged by the upper edges of the walls of the bag and to also he engaged by said loops, combined substantially as set forth.

3. A portable bath comprising, a shelf adapted to support a pail provided with a shower-pipe, bag-supporting arms detachably connected with and projecting forward from the shelf, hooks carried by said arms, and a box-shaped bag having a base adapted to rest upon a floor below the shelf and having its front wall openable at one of the front corners and having attaching devices at the upper edges of its walls for engage- -ment with said hooks, combined substantially as set forth.

a. A portable bath comprising, a shelf, eyes carried by the shelf at the rear portion of its ends, bag-supporting arms provided at their rear ends with pins to engage said eyes and provided also with downwardly projecting dowelpins to engage dowel-holes in the forward portion of the shelf, hooks carried by the arms, a box-shaped bag having its base adapted to rest upon a floor below the shelf and having its front wall openable at one of the front corners of the bag, and attaching devices carried by the bag and adapted to engage said hooks, combined substantially as set forth.

5. A portable bath comprising, an overhead support, a box-shaped bag having its base adapted to rest upon a floor below said support and having one of'its corners openable from the top of the bag to a point near its base, attaching devices for securing the top of the bag to said support, attaching devices secured to the front'low'er corner of the bag and adapted to engage attaching devices 011 said support whenthe base of the bag is elevated, and a stoppered discharge opening in the back wall of the bag near its base, combined substantially as set forth.

CHARLES A. nnnon.

lVitnesses Gno. JOHNSON, HELEN M. MILDERS.

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